jerry bruckheimer-related stories
Posted Oct 7th 2009 2:02PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: TV on DVD, Ask TV Squad, Reality-Free
The "Ask TV Squad" column, published every Wednesday, answers your questions about current and past TV shows, as well as about the celebrities appearing on TV. Every week, I will pick a question (or more) sent to us and provide answers in the column. If your question is not picked for a column, it may be answered in a subsequent column. To submit questions to the "Ask TV Squad" column, you can post them below in comments or email them at
asktvsquad@gmail.com.
This week, I answer questions about online TV shows, a new series called Miami Trauma, and NYPD Blue DVDs.
Continue reading Ask TV Squad: NYPD Blue, Miami Trauma and online shows
Posted Oct 6th 2009 11:00AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, CSI, Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Stealing scenes on the small screen is nothing new to Christian Slater. The actor, known for films like
Heathers,
True Romance and
Pump up the Volume, has made memorable guest appearances on shows like
Alias,
The West Wing and
My Name is Earl. His first shot at his own series, the NBC spy thriller
My Own Worst Enemy, struggled to find an audience, leading the network to cancel it halfway through the first season.
Slater is back starring in a new series,
The Forgotten, produced by
CSI head honcho Jerry Bruckheimer. The ABC procedural follows a team of amateur detectives who work murder cases involving unidentified victims, or John and Jane Does. Slater plays former cop Alex Donovan, whose search for his missing daughter inspires him in the field.
I got the chance to talk with Slater about
The Forgotten, his new career in TV, and what one of his most famous big screen characters would think about his latest role.
Continue reading Christian Slater talks about The Forgotten, life at 40, and his love of TV
Posted Jul 13th 2009 2:03PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, OpEd, Early Looks, Reality-Free
I've been really curious to see what TNT's
Dark Blue is all about. It's got a few things going for it right off the bat: producer Jerry Bruckheimer and lead actor Dylan McDermott. I can't say I'm all about the police dramas, but those two guys made me want to check it out.
Plus, it's on TNT, which has been running edgier shows lately, like
Saving Grace,
The Closer, and
Leverage. The network is sort of a cross between HBO and USA, with some FX thrown in.
On my first viewing of the
Dark Blue pilot, it came across as just another procedural about a brooding cop (McDermott) whose team walks the line between right and wrong. But I knew in my heart there was more, so I watched it again.
Continue reading Dark Blue -- An early look
Posted May 20th 2009 10:59AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, The Amazing Race, CSI, Survivor, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, Upfronts, Reality-Free, The Mentalist, The Big Bang Theory
Coming off a strong 2008 season, CBS is taking some bold moves with their new season program schedule. As we wrote earlier, there are four new dramas, a sitcom and a reality show in the mix.
The big news is how it's shifting around some hit shows on Monday and Thursday, while standing pat on Wednesday. Here's what we know right now...after the jump.
Continue reading The Upfronts: CBS
Posted May 19th 2009 12:03PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Upfronts, Reality-Free
We're still over 24 hours away from
CBS making their official announcements about the new season, but apparently pre-upfront news is as plentiful as upfront news, so here we are with
more information about what CBS will be telling us tomorrow. In addition to the already leaked
three dramas that are a go -- Alex O'Loughlin in
Three Rivers, Julianna Margulies in
The Good Wife, and LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell in the
NCIS spin-off -- today we've learned about three more new shows.
Jenna Elfman is back on TV with a new sitcom. In 2006, she tried a CBS comedy called
Courting Alex that failed to click, but she had a five-year run on ABC with
Dharma & Greg. The actress toplines
Accidentally on Purpose, playing a film critic (and I hope whatever publication she writes for doesn't go belly-up like so many others these days) who accidentally gets pregnant after a fling with a younger man. I'm laughing already.
Continue reading More about CBS's plans for the new season
Posted Mar 24th 2009 10:00AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: The Amazing Race, Survivor, Vs.
It might seem crazy to suggest that either one of CBS's two long-running reality series doesn't work, but I'm sticking to my convictions.
Survivor has lost the edge it had when it started, and it's no longer a show that works for me.
On the other hand,
The Amazing Race continues to set the industry bar high for quality reality (assuming you don't think that's an oxymoron). So, stacking them up, one versus the other, here's how
The Amazing Race tops
Survivor.
Continue reading Amazing Race vs. Survivor: Why one works and the other doesn't
Posted Jan 8th 2009 2:07PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
TNT is furthering its investment in original drama by
adding two new shows to its programming, increasing the number of original hour-long dramas they offer to seven. The first new show is
The Line, a cop drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Dylan McDermott. The second is a medical drama called
Time Heals starring Jada Pinkett Smith.
This seems to me an example of a trickle-down effect. Due to the Internet and video-on-demand, reruns simply don't work anymore in keeping a network in business. Original drama worked so well for premium networks such as HBO and Showtime that standard cable stations such as AMC, TNT and several others took it upon themselves to do the same.
I guess
Leverage is such a winner for the network that it can afford to add to its line-up. At this rate, there is going to be too much original television offered weekly for a human being to possibly keep up (if there isn't already), which is why video-on-demand was invented in the first place.
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 9:05AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Today's news that CBS ordered
five more episodes of Eleventh Hour is not a big surprise. A big surprise would have been if the network didn't give the freshman drama a re-order. The Jerry Bruckheimer production has been in the most-favored nation position at CBS -- meaning whatever Jerry wants, he usually gets.
The network enjoys a very fruitful/profitable relationship with the TV/filmmaker. Together, CBS and Jerry share
Cold Case, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Without A Trace and
The Amazing Race. They're thinking of changing the initials CBS to Columbia Bruckheimer System. (Kidding!)
Continue reading CBS orders five more Eleventh Hour eps
Posted Nov 7th 2008 12:36PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Casting, Reality-Free
TNT knows drama. That's their logo, their mantra, their promise to viewers, and with
The Closer, for instance, they've delivered. Now they're prepping another new drama, this one with some major experience in front of the camera and behind it.
It sort of reads like a dream team.
Dylan McDermott starring in a Jerry Bruckheimer drama called The Line for TNT. Only it's not a dream. It's a pilot for 2009.
Instead of sharing this one with CBS where his shows dominate the line up --
CSI, CSI: New York, CSI: Miami, Eleventh Hour, Cold Case, Without A Trace, The Amazing Race --
Jerry Bruckheimer has decided to share the wealth a bit. He's moved this one over to TNT. However, he's bringing in
CSI vets Jonathan Littman (six-time Emmy winner) and Danny Cannon to produce and direct, respectively.
Continue reading Dylan McDermott cast in Bruckheimer's new TNT drama
Posted May 14th 2008 10:19AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Programming, The Amazing Race, CSI, Survivor, Numb3rs, How I Met Your Mother, Cancellations, Pickups and Renewals, Shark, Upfronts, Cane, Moonlight
CBS announced its plans for the 2008-2009 season today. For the most part, things are staying the same, but there are two new sitcoms and four hour dramas planned. Here are the highlights:
Returning: The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Rules of Engagement, The Unit, Cold Case, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, The Ghost Whisperer, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS, 60 Minutes, Without A Trace, Survivor, The Amazing RaceOut: Shark, Moonlight, Cane, Kid Nation, Power of 10, Secret Talents of the Stars, Viva Laughlin, Welcome to the CaptainNew: The Worst Week, Project Gary, The Ex List, Eleventh Hour, The Mentalist
Mid-season: Harper's Island, Rules of Engagement
Schedule and detailed descriptions of the new shows coming soon, after the jump.Continue reading The Upfronts: CBS
Posted Mar 28th 2008 3:21PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen
Hi-Yo Silver, Away! One more time, that masked man will ride again. Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have enlisted writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio for a
big screen remake of The Lone Ranger. A live action, hoot-hollering, hero on a horseback western epic, if
Bruckheimer follows his pattern of doing things big and bold.
Ted and Terry are the same writers that helped bring
Pirates of the Caribbean to the movie theaters in three box office bonanzas. And with
Pirates, there was a lot less source material.
Pirates of the Caribbean was just a ride at Disneyland (and Disney World).
The Lone Ranger could be called the Long Ranger with its rich history in radio, TV and written word.
Continue reading Hi-Yo, Silver! The Lone Ranger is heading to the silver screen
Posted Feb 27th 2008 1:01PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, 24, CSI, NCIS
It doesn't take a rocket scientist, let alone a forensic specialist, to detect that the
CSI franchise is hot. CBS currently boasts three shows with
CSI in the title --
CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York -- four if you include the non-Jerry Bruckheimer produced military procedural
NCIS. So, then, it shouldn't come as a surprise that
CSI is expanding. No, there's not a new
CSI TV show happening, but there is an amusement park variation on
CSI coming to life at Magic Mountain, the Valencia, California tourist attraction. (By the way, isn't it nice that Valencia didn't get nuked for real like it did on
24 last season?)
Continue reading CSI: Magic Mountain - it's true
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 2:24PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Amazing Race, CSI, Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting
Nobody would ever confuse Rufus Sewell for Patrick Stewart (
Star Trek: The Next Generation), right? Well, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer
has chosen Sewell for the lead in the $4 million pilot of the British drama series
Eleventh Hour. Presumably, Rufus will be playing the same role Patrick played, that is Professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, enlisted to tackle all kinds of dangerous threats stemming from science gone awry.
Continue reading Rufus Sewell cast in new Bruckheimer pilot
Posted Oct 18th 2007 3:05PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: CSI, Celebrities
It's
no secret that Jorja Fox, who plays Sara Sidle on
CSI, is leaving the show this season. She has a contentious history with the show and was even temporarily fired during contract negotiations in 2004. But, why is she leaving?
Fox gave a quick interview to
EW.com, explaining her departure. She's leaving to broaden her horizons. The actress has been on
CSI for seven years and is looking for something else to do. She says, "If I thought the show was on its last legs, I would've tried harder to stay the course. But I feel like it's going to be around for a while, so I don't want some of those dreams to pass me by."
Continue reading Why Jorja Fox is leaving CSI
Posted Aug 16th 2007 12:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Industry
Jerry Bruckheimer may be taking over yet another hour of programming over at CBS. His production company is already responsible for the
CSI franchises,
Without a Trace,
Cold Case, and
The Amazing Race. Now the network
has ordered a pilot for another Bruckheimer drama about a team of treasure hunters. The series tracks the treasure hunters as they travel all over the world to play
Indiana Jones. It kind-of sounds like
CSI meets
The Amazing Race, doesn't it?
The writers said they want to update
Indiana Jones and make it exciting and cool. I can already picture the musical montages as the adventurers unearth and restore their treasure.
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